Category: Politics
‘Election Heist’
The Economist, March 14, 2024: Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League party (PML-N) is back in…
Family Drama in the Garden State
Two of New Jersey’s three statewide offices could be held by people living in the…
Z A Bhutto: Incomplete Justice
Will the judges remain in their ivory towers or see the reality of political injustice…
Asif Ali Zardari: The Prince of Guile
Even his rivals acknowledge that Zardari is a deal-maker par excellence. He has been written…
Two Speeches, Two Americas
Jonathan Weisman in The New York Times: On Tuesday night, a triumphant Donald Trump looked…
The Violent Origins of Political Societies
Niccolò Machiavelli’s profound insights about the violent origins of political societies help us understand the…
Was Trump’s Nomination Always Inevitable?
As recently as a year ago, less than half of Republican voters named Trump as…
Political Correctness: How The Few Try To Rule Over The Many
Real democracy is not just about the rule of the majority, but the rule of…
Power-Lunch is Picking Up. Like It’s 1989!
Dana Brown goes in search of the long-lost media power lunch—and finds it’s alive and…
Bangladesh Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Complying with Labor Laws–more specifically minimum wage rate and benefits is…
I am Not Your Negro
A segment from James Baldwin’s brilliant response to a philosophy professor on a 1968 episode…